Otohiko wrote:I had a shitty night, no sleep, and absolutely rotten mood this morning...

...then went on to deliver one of my best pairs of lectures ever. Ain't even bragging, it just somehow clicked. The first one especially went surprisingly well and my usually-quiet 11:30 class was sharp as tacks and giving insightful comments left and right. I dunno if it was just a caffeine-powered lucky break or what for me, but I'll take it. Not sucking at my job does feel pretty great, especially when you dreaded even going to work in the morning :O

Clearly you need to get yourself absolutely livid the night before every lecture.

OtakuGray wrote:Sometimes anime can branch out to a younger audience and this is one of those times where you wish children would just go die.

Otohiko wrote:I had a shitty night, no sleep, and absolutely rotten mood this morning...

...then went on to deliver one of my best pairs of lectures ever. Ain't even bragging, it just somehow clicked. The first one especially went surprisingly well and my usually-quiet 11:30 class was sharp as tacks and giving insightful comments left and right. I dunno if it was just a caffeine-powered lucky break or what for me, but I'll take it. Not sucking at my job does feel pretty great, especially when you dreaded even going to work in the morning :O

Clearly you need to get yourself absolutely livid the night before every lecture.

OtakuGray wrote:Sometimes anime can branch out to a younger audience and this is one of those times where you wish children would just go die.

My heart is beating so fast and I feel like it's going to explode and come out of my chest or I'm going to have a heart attack and I'm so embarrassed and I'm pink and blushing and everything and ah my goodness I think I'm going to faint because it's beating at like 1000 beats a minute and oh my god this sentence is such a run-on sentence let me just faint now.

Kimberly wrote:My heart is beating so fast and I feel like it's going to explode and come out of my chest or I'm going to have a heart attack and I'm so embarrassed and I'm pink and blushing and everything and ah my goodness I think I'm going to faint because it's beating at like 1000 beats a minute and oh my god this sentence is such a run-on sentence let me just faint now.

For the past 9 months or so, I've been a first time homeowner, and I've been working with my lawyer to get a loan modification due to the house being previously owned by my mom (who now lives in NY) and was on the heels of foreclosure after my dad passed away 5 years ago.

Sadly, the loan modification didn't work out and I was still constantly being hounded by our lender to pay all of the outstanding balance that led to the house being foreclosed in the first place. My mom declared bankruptcy a few years back to save the house. Just recently, the house was sold off to a private investor who literally *promised* me that he would work things out by having me rent the house with an option to buy it again in 2 years. The rent would be much much cheaper than what I was currently paying for the mortgage.

However, the investor has decided to be an asshole and now wants me out. I asked him why and he said "I can't disclose those reasons right now" and has been harrassing the shit out of me for the past few weeks. I told him that I would be taking things up with my lawyer and now I have these options:

- I leave the house by the end of April and I get $10,000 to find a new place.- My laywer is going to sue both our previous lender and the investor for withholding information/harrasment and I *may* get $25-$50K from all of it. - The housing market is a lot better now so even if I only got the $10,000, I can *easily* rent a new house which could be bigger and better than my current one for less $$$.

I've decided that I'm going to blow this popsicle stand, get a bigger, badder, and better house for much less rent money (with the option to buy in 2 years) and hope my previous lender and investor go fuck themselves and have fun picking up the mess while I end up being filthy rich.

I have to admit the thought of moving out is daunting, but it's best that I move onto a bigger and better place without the excess baggage.